But in 2008, with much ado that included a glowing endorsement from Alabama Governor Bob Riley, Myers officially made the move to HudsonAlpha. In addition to being handed the steering wheel of a new institute, this was a homecoming of sorts for the Tuscaloosa native.
Myers’ lab continues to work with the Joint Genome Institute and has sequenced the genomes of more than 40 organisms related to bioenergy, agricultural, and environmental problems. His lab is also part of the Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium, which studies mood disorders with gene expression studies, and the Cancer Genome Atlas project. And in case those commitments don’t keep him busy enough, Myers also finds time to serve on the HapMap Advisory Committee and the Review Group for Large-Scale DNA Sequencing Centers of the National Human Genome Research Institute, as well as on the Biology and Biotechnology Program Advisory Committee for the US Department of Energy.
More on Richard Myers on GenomeWeb.